Local Market After two calendar years of weaker returns (5% in 2015 and 2.6% in 2016), market prices produced a respectable 21% in 2017. Despite this move up in prices, the 5 year compounded return for the JSE All Share index is only up to 11.9%. Nevertheless, this is...
Why female investors will soar in 2024! Not so long ago, when we were honouring women around National Women’s Day, we wrote about what great Investors women can be and the many reasons why they are potentially better wealth creators than men. Recent research has...
There has been a lot of controversy about AI recently and innovations like ChatGPT have been responsible for people striking in protest and even for governments examining if a future utilising all the elements of AI is a good one. There is no doubt that in medicine...
As we will be on the threshold of Spring in the second half of this month, a time when new seeds are sown we thought a look at the importance of discipline in how we sow the financial seeds for our future could be of interest and possibly help some of our investors....
As we approach our National Women’s Day we thought it may be interesting to see the difference between how Men and Women view finances and particularly as investors which of the genders is more astute and successful at it. As the John Gray book says, ‘Men are from...
Author: Ian De Lange CA(SA) | Chief Investment Officer | Seed Investments Investing success starts with building savings, and savings requires keeping expenses lower than income. On a personal level this simply means budgeting and managing debt and expenses to...
